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Eighteen minutes left on my timer. One more hour left in the manga cafe. Day 440 of 595 of a paid Japanese immersion experience called Silverspoon. (I’m listening to Japanese Youtube as I write.) ￥900 to be in this booth. … Continue reading →

Preparing for Take-off The house-sitter is secured. Passport is in order and samurai is ready to go to Japan. My bags are not yet packed but somehow I’ve found a few minutes to read my trashy self-help book, 毎朝１分で人生は変わる：One Minute, … Continue reading →

I was one of those guys that resisted getting an iPod for what seems like an eternity. Then, I started trying to learn Japanese and realized what a relic I was walking around town with a cassette deck or … Continue reading →

Spaced-repetition, the final frontier. To boldly go where no samurai notebook has gone before. I’ve used notebooks for a long time. For a while, I was doing “morning pages”, a method popularized by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way. (I … Continue reading →

My name is Juan Rivera and this is my blog. Samurai mind online is about learning and self-help strategies with an Eastern edge. Disclaimer #1: I don’t know anything about samurai. I don’t want to be a samurai. I don’t … Continue reading →